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If The U.S. Is Giving Ukraine Real-Time Battlefield Intel, Congress Needs To Vote On It
The Federalist ^ | MAY 06, 2022 | JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON

Posted on 05/07/2022 11:04:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

It’s not too much to ask that Congress debate and vote on whether to authorize a U.S. march to war that’s now well underway.

The New York Times claimed this week that the United States is providing real-time battlefield intelligence to Ukraine that has enabled the Ukrainians to target and kill approximately a dozen Russian generals, and helped >locate and strike the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet last month.

Described as a “classified effort,” the U.S. provision of targeting intelligence to Ukraine “also includes anticipated Russian troop movements gleaned from recent American assessments of Moscow’s secret battle plan for the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine,” according to the Times.

The Times’ reporting relies on anonymous “senior American officials,” but if true it represents a sharp and unprecedented escalation of U.S. involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian war, such that Congress should immediately debate and vote on whether to authorize the use of military force in Ukraine.

Indeed, providing real-time targeting intelligence brings the United States right up to the line of belligerence, and arguably over it. The Biden administration seems to understand this. According to the Times, the administration “has sought to keep much of the battlefield intelligence secret, out of fear it will be seen as an escalation and provoke President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia into a wider war.”

The White House is right to fear this outcome, because it’s entirely possible that Putin will absolutely consider this level of battlefield participation by the United States tantamount to an act of war. That’s no doubt why the Biden administration snapped into damage control mode after the Times story about targeting intelligence published on Wednesday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia; US: New York
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To: varyouga

What do you think happens when you present a nuclear power with an existential threat?

You thermonuclear warmongers deserve to be incinerated.

But not the rest of us.


41 posted on 05/07/2022 1:38:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Your bat-excrement crazy mental illness does not impose an obligation upon me to deny reality.)
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To: mylife

bingo!

they are poking and prodding to get a response


42 posted on 05/07/2022 1:41:37 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: JoSixChip

so if putin attacks a us ship in response to these intelligence leaks biden can go all in?


43 posted on 05/07/2022 1:51:35 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

They were elected fraudulently,so everything they do is illegal


44 posted on 05/07/2022 2:10:32 PM PDT by ballplayer
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To: joshua c

yessir


45 posted on 05/07/2022 2:19:16 PM PDT by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There is no existential threat from Ukraine and fighting will be over today if Russians simply return to their globally recognized borders. They go home and Russia still remains the largest country on earth with tons of resources.

Ukraine was partially invaded in 2014 and there was not ONE attack on Russian soil for 7-8 years.

You think they really believe their own BS that the ragtag Ukrainian army that couldn’t take back Donbas was about to move on Moscow?


46 posted on 05/07/2022 2:30:14 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: varyouga
There is no existential threat from Ukraine...

Thank you Commander Obvious.

It's a proxy war being conducted by the Deep State using Ukraine as cover.


47 posted on 05/07/2022 2:39:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Your bat-excrement crazy mental illness does not impose an obligation upon me to deny reality.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There’s no reason for libertarian flunkies to continue to work themselves into frenzies with that weak propaganda. They and the Russians have lost the war before it started. Several rich libertarians, in their desires for continuing globalism, have said that “there will be no more wars.” They were wrong.


48 posted on 05/07/2022 4:03:28 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What proxy war on Russia? There was not a single attack on Russian soil since Ukraine existed. Even after invasion in 2014, Ukraine did not attack.

President Trump supported sending weapons to Ukraine because otherwise it would be like dueling a blind man with a machine gun. Totally unfair to a people staying within their own far smaller borders and just trying to live.

Russia is not a cornered bear. They have more territory and resources than anyone. Ukraine practically gave them Crimea for prime water access. Not a single attack there either since 2014.


49 posted on 05/07/2022 9:08:29 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: varyouga
What proxy war on Russia?

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50 posted on 05/07/2022 9:22:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Your bat-excrement crazy mental illness does not impose an obligation upon me to deny reality.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

sooo, what else was on Hunter’s laptop?


51 posted on 05/08/2022 10:01:42 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We used to be much better at classified operations. That seems impossible today. All it takes is for one Democrat who works for the Washington Post to divulge all the secrets and guess what? The reporters are going to run the story. Who cares if we get nuked anyway? At least we are telling the Russians that they are the bad guys.


52 posted on 05/08/2022 12:16:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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